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Brittany Smith, 30, of 720 MacDonald St. was charged with possession of synthetic marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
Sewickley police responded to 103 Chestnut St. about 5:25 p.m. June 26 for a possible domestic dispute. When police arrived, Smith was seen yelling at James Cisneros. He told officers that Smith had taken one of his prescription sleeping pills and smoked synthetic marijuana, later identified as Cloud Nine Mad Hatter in...
Police asked Smith, who was sitting on the curb, if she was OK, to which she responded "yes" in a slurred speech, the report said. An ambulance was called for Smith, who was unable to balance when standing, police said.
Police asked to look in Smith's green purse, which was next to her on the curb. They found a silver metal pipe with what appeared to be marijuana residue and an open package of Cloud Nine Mad Hatter incense.
A Shaler Township man is facing charges after he stole money from his employer to pay for medical expenses, according to a Sewickley police report.
William Hutchison, 46, of 201 Richard Drive was charged with theft and receiving stolen property.
Sewickley police responded to a theft report about 1:45 p.m. July 2 at the Verizon Wireless, 539 Beaver St. District Manager Emily Quinn told police that $325 was stolen from the register, and she had a video of Hutchison taking the money and leaving in a cab.
Quinn told police there were two deposit envelopes stolen recently, one for $1,319.42 from�the week of May 23-30 and the other as $1,102.14 from June 10-12, according to the report. Quinn told police she did not have this on tape, but she suspected Hutchison.
Police said Hutchison went to the station July 6 to discuss the theft and admitted to stealing the cash from the register as well as the deposits from the lockbox using a spare key. Hutchison told police he stole the money to help pay for medical expenses from his liver cancer and a tumor on his brain stem, according t...
An arrest warrant has been issued for a Scott Township man who has been charged with stealing seven diabetic strip kits, totaling $885.43, from a Rite Aid store in Sewickley, according to a Sewickley police report.
Mark Sperduti, 35, of 319 Old Washington Pike was charged with receiving stolen property, driving under suspension and reckless driving.
Sewickley police were called about 8:40 p.m. July 9 at Rite Aid, 515 Beaver St., regarding a theft. While en route, police were told that the suspect fled the scene and was heading north on Beaver Street.
Matt Jackson, store manager, told police a male, later identified as Sperduti, set off the front-door alarms when he came into the store. Jackson followed Sperduti to the back of the store where he watched him put diabetic strip kits in a garbage bag. Sperduti then ran out of the store, setting off the the alarms again...
Police said Jackson got vehicle information and was able to identify Sperduti from photos, the report said. Officers left messages at the residence listed for Sperduti. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
WARNER SPRINGS -- A motorist died following a crash early Tuesday on State Route 79 near Warner Springs.
A gray vehicle was spotted overturned between two large rocks on the Side of the highway around 3:20 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. The wrecked vehicle was found near the Emerald Creek Winery at 38642 State Route 79.
The victim's name was not immediately available.
Chicago Public Schools on Friday unveiled a $5.7 billion operating budget "framework" for the coming school year that relies on well over a quarter-billion dollars in help from the city and a still-larger infusion of cash from state lawmakers who remain tangled in a political dogfight.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's $269 million commitment to the financially ailing district comes as the city confronts its own money troubles. But city officials repeatedly declined to say where the money would come from.
CPS said it was working with the city "to identify an appropriate source" for the funds. An Emanuel spokesman said he could not answer how the money would be generated. A spokeswoman for the city's finance department would say only that the aid would "not come at the expense of the city's financial well-being."
"There are many options for local resources to fill this gap and meet our commitment for a balanced budget," district CEO Forrest Claypool told reporters during a Friday afternoon news conference at a Little Italy neighborhood elementary school. "This is not the time and place to discuss them. We'll be continuing to ha...
Officials suggested that the proposal for financial help from the city is meant to generate fresh pressure on Springfield's lawmakers to address an ongoing education budget impasse that's already cut off regularly scheduled aid payments to schools across Illinois.
The state Senate is set to convene Sunday and could consider an override of Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's rewrite of a school funding overhaul passed by the Democratic General Assembly that would provide as much as $300 million in additional funding to CPS for the upcoming school year. Rauner has dismissed the legisla...
State Comptroller Susana Mendoza sent $429 million in overdue payments to Illinois school districts Thursday, an effort designed to provide some cash on a day the state missed sending its first batch of regularly scheduled education checks.
An override in the House would be more difficult, and some observers anticipate an entirely new piece of legislation will be needed to break the stalemate.
Without any additional help from the state and city, the district faces a deficit of $544 million, according to documents from a half-billion-dollar CPS bond sale that closed in July.
"We're not going to let the state off the hook, they have a constitutional responsibility to fund schools. And not just fund schools, fund them fairly," Claypool said.
Aldermen were briefed by phone Friday on the proposed city money for CPS, which will require council approval. That could meet some resistance, considering the city has its own budget gap of about $200 million to close and that council members have already been asked to approve broad tax hikes on their constituents.
"Where are we going to get that (money for CPS), when the city has its own shortfall to deal with?" said City Council Education Committee Chairman Ald. Howard Brookins Jr., 21st.
Molly Poppe, the city's financial spokeswoman, said she "can't get into specifics of what we're looking at, what options we have on the table," but said the intervention "will not come at the expense of the city's financial well-being."
Emanuel has faced considerable pressure from the Chicago Teachers Union and some community groups to come up with additional local funding for CPS, but he has been reluctant to signal his intentions while the debate in Springfield plays out.
The union responded to Friday's budget outline by pointing to its long-standing calls for new taxes, including ones that land harder on the state's wealthiest residents.
"Aldermen need to know that just like all the other votes they have taken regarding revenue, this will also be insufficient," CTU President Karen Lewis said. "The mayor needs to be forthcoming and give them the opportunity to take a vote that actually solves a problem instead of making it worse."
In the proposed budget, teacher salary and benefit costs jump by $99 million compared with last year. The budget also includes an additional $40 million in new health care and non-CTU salary increases. The district's annual contribution to the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund will reach $773 million.
The district expects to receive $22 million in surplus funds from the city's controversial tax-increment financing districts. That, like many other numbers, could change.
Emanuel and the city last October agreed to declare a higher-than-expected tax-increment finance district surplus to provide $55 million toward a CTU contract, which was reached only moments before a threatened strike.
Around that time, there was talk both in Democratic and Republican circles of changing state law to allow Chicago to direct all declared surplus TIF funds to CPS.
The district acknowledged the 243-page budget document released Friday will serve as only a "framework for the district's eventual (2018) budget." The district said it would release a budget that incorporates any needed changes when necessary.
"Springfield will eventually have an education budget; I believe that," Claypool told reporters Friday. "But we're prepared for what's necessary to keep our schools open on time and stay open. But, the first order of business is for Springfield to act."
Last year, after first approving a $5.6 billion operating budget in August, the school board amended the budget to account for new expenses related to the CTU contract and Rauner's veto of a measure that would have sent $215 million to the district. Ultimately the district wound up with a $5.4 billion budget.
CPS has been criticized in the past two budget years for assuming Springfield would deliver money that, in fact, did not materialize. That left the district to turn to teacher furloughs, midyear cuts and more of the costly borrowing that's helped lead to its financial woes.
This year, officials noted that other school districts across the state are in a similar position as the fate of the school funding bill plays out. "When the dust has cleared in Springfield, like many other districts, we will have a more detailed and specific budget that incorporates any changes or revisions required,"...
The mayor and Claypool have said repeatedly that no matter what Springfield does, city schools will open on time and stay open for the full school year.
By offering to close the district's remaining financial gap while negotiations in Springfield drag on, the city could make a case that it has done its part and the state now has to come through. Under that reasoning, the city is not letting Rauner off the hook — as Emanuel vowed not to do while the legislation's fate i...
CPS still maintains that even the extra $300 million it would get under the Democratic-backed Senate Bill 1 is a compromise, since the district would be getting an extra $500 million if it was treated the same as every other district in the state. With that in mind, putting up money allows Emanuel to say he's helping t...
That strategy could backfire if Republicans point to the mayor's ability to come up with hundreds of millions of additional dollars and contend he should just take it further and fill the entire shortfall.
The proposed budget again makes clear the district's heavy reliance on borrowing. CPS said it planned to add to its roughly $9 billion load of short- and long-term debt by borrowing cash to be repaid with future property tax revenue. The district has budgeted roughly $79 million just to pay the expected interest costs ...
Plus, CPS has budgeted $18 million to pay interest on two expensive loans the district took out against the value of past-due state aid payments.
CPS faces a Dec. 28 deadline to repay or refinance those loans. Should the state fail to come through with the grants by that date, CPS agreed to take on full responsibility to repay the loan — plus interest — using short-term debt or its own cash no later than the end of March.
All told, the district said it expects to spend nearly $400 million of the state education aid it receives this year simply to repay its debts.
CPS will hold public hearings on the budget later this month, with a final budget set for a vote by the Chicago Board of Education on Aug. 28.
Chicago Tribune's Bill Ruthhart and John Byrne contributed.
Hemingway, Fitzgerald: Did alcohol help or hinder the great writers?
Does boozing help or hinder artistic endeavor?
In my last pair of entries, I looked at artists’ coffee-drinking habits and highlighted a swath of 20th-century writers who used amphetamines to boost their output. But what about alcohol? Weren’t many of history’s great artists also great boozers?
For this to work, of course, you have to be capable of having just a few drinks. When he was writing Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald tried to reserve a portion of each day for sober composition. But he went on regular binges and later admitted to his editor that alcohol had interfered with the novel. “It has b...
Eric H. Holder Jr.’s confirmation as attorney general is speeding toward approval thanks in part to his private assurances to a key Republican senator that he does not intend to prosecute intelligence agency interrogators for their actions during the prior administration.
The assurances, reported by Sen. Christopher S. Bond, Missouri Republican, to The Washington Times on Wednesday, went beyond Mr. Holder’s earlier public testimony in which he said he could not prejudge his actions regarding cases he had not seen.
“I believe [Mr. Holder] will look forward to keep the nation safe and not look backwards to prosecute intelligence operators who were fighting terror and kept our country safe since 9/11,” Mr. Bond said in the interview.
Still, Mr. Holder’s private comments to Mr. Bond were important to moving his nomination forward. Mr. Bond was strongly considering blocking Mr. Holder’s confirmation based on questions arising from some of Mr. Holder’s public statements, a senior aide to Mr. Bond said.
But after meeting with Mr. Holder twice over the past week and having received assurances that he was not intent on pursuing intelligence officials who acted in good faith with proper authorization in the conduct of interrogations, Mr. Bond decided to support the nominee, the aide added.
On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 17-2 to favorably recommend Mr. Holder, 58, for the post. The full Senate is expected to confirm Mr. Holder soon as the nation’s first black attorney general.
The full Senate continued to fill out President Obama’s national security team Wednesday, confirming by voice vote retired Adm. Dennis Blair to be director of national intelligence.
Mr. Blair last Thursday hinted strongly that he would forgo dealing with intelligence community interrogators through the courts.
During his confirmation hearings Mr. Blair said he did not intend to reopen those cases of those officers who acted within their duties, in response to a question about water-boarding from Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat. The Bush administration said the practice, widely denounced as torture, was used on three indiv...
Mr. Blair said, I’m hesitating to set a standard here which will put in jeopardy some of the dedicated intelligence officers who checked to see that what they were doing was legal and then did what they were told to do.
Also Wednesday, the ACLU announced that it would seek the declassification of some 41 memos from the Bush administrations Office of Legal Counsel dealing with surveillance and interrogation policies. These documents have been sought by some Democrats in Congress.
ACLU legislative director, Caroline Fredrickson, said the disclosure of the memos could force the Justice Department to begin investigations into some Bush-era policymakers.
As a result of this flurry of activity, the exact content of the conversation between Mr. Bond and Mr. Holder is important to partisans on both sides of the aisle.
But Mr. Bond read something else in Mr. Holder’s private words to him.
“I made it clear that trying to prosecute political leaders would generate a political firestorm the Obama administration doesn’t need,” Mr. Bond said he told Mr. Holder.
Mr. Holder gave similar assurances last week in a little-noticed written response to questions from Republican Sens. Jon Kyl of Arizona and John Cornyn of Texas. Mr. Holder indicated that he would not prosecute any intelligence officers who participated in the interrogation program and who had followed Justice Departme...
Mr. Bond told The Times that Mr. Holder also pledged in a private meeting Tuesday not to reopen the issue of immunity from civil lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with the National Security Agency after the Sept. 11 attacks - another potential obstacle to the nomination among Republican senators...
Mr. Holder testified for nearly eight hours last week, but Republicans said afterward that they were still unsure about whether he would seek to prosecute soldiers and intelligence officials who practiced or ordered harsh interrogation techniques.
Mr. Holder received an important boost Tuesday when Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, announced he would support the nomination.
Mr. Specter called “satisfactory” Mr. Holder’s statements that interrogation techniques authorized by legal opinions would provide a strong cover from prosecutions. Mr. Specter said Mr. Holder could not make any more explicit statements without knowing the facts of specific cases.
Mr. Holder is all but certain to be confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate. A vote on his nomination has not been scheduled, though a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said the chamber could vote as early as Thursday.
SINGAPORE — In a match between the last two U.S. Open champions, Sloane Stephens came out on top.
Both players are making their debut appearances at the tournament, but Stephens appeared to be more composed while Osaka, who became the first Japanese citizen to win a Grand Slam title last month in New York, never seemed comfortable.
"I'm just really happy to get through and play a good competitive match," Stephens said on court after the match. "I never gave up. I knew she's been playing well and I'd have to play really good tennis to beat her."
Both players struggled to hold serve. Osaka was broken on seven of 19 break-point opportunities, while Stephens was broken on four of 12.
Stephens entered the tournament with 33 wins this season, the least of any of the eight qualifiers. She reached her second career Grand Slam final at this year's French Open, and won the Miami title.
Stephens is now 1-0 in the Red Group, while Osaka is 0-1. Angelique Kerber and Kiki Bertens are also in the group.
Shrewsbury Town have signed Bolton Wanderers striker Tom Eaves on an initial one-month loan deal.
Eaves, 21, enjoyed a successful loan spell with Bristol Rovers in League Two earlier this season, scoring seven times in 15 matches.
Shrews manager Graham Turner told the club website: "Tom is a striker who scores goals and holds up play. "
Liverpool-born Eaves, who is 6ft 5ins tall, began his career with Oldham Athletic before joining Bolton in 2010.
He recently signed a new three year contract with the Championship club.
"Tom is a player who we've been trying to get into the club for a while now," added Turner.
"He had options at a number of other sides, including ones higher up in our league, but Bolton and their director of football Lennie Lawrence thought the best option was for him to come here."
Eaves is available for Shrewsbury's home game against Stevenage on Saturday.
Oct 29, 2018 (LBO) – Moody’s says the current political crisis in Sri Lanka is credit negative for the sovereign and the President’s sudden appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister significantly heightens policy uncertainty.
Issuing a statement, Matthew Circosta of Moody’s Investors Service said the possible social tensions that may unfold in the next few weeks would have a negative impact on the economy, which is already growing slowly.
“And at a time when global financial markets are turbulent, uncertainty about the direction of future policy could have a large and lasting negative impact on international investor confidence,” Circosta said.
'I don’t think I did anything wrong,' Lerner said.
Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner sat down for an exclusive interview with POLITICO about her life as a pariah, and before the tea party targeting controversy broke.
She wouldn’t answer questions about her role in the targeting, but here’s a round-up of comments from Lerner that didn’t make it into the story.
JEZ BUTTERWORTH’S new play, “Parlour Song,” a darkly comic drama about a man, his wife and their cocksure next-door neighbor, received great reviews when it opened this month at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater. (Ben Brantley, writing in The New York Times, called it “smart and rueful.”) But you would...
“Parlour Song” is his third production at the Atlantic. “Mojo,” his first full-length play, which he wrote when he was 24, received rave reviews when it was staged there in 1997. Mr. Butterworth also directed the film version that same year. His play “The Night Heron” received strong but less effervescent reviews when ...
Shortly after “Parlour Song” opened, Erik Piepenburg spoke with Mr. Butterworth about studying hard, writing for the screen and finding inspiration in an unusual trio named Pinter, Friel and Waits. These are excerpts from the conversation.

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